Rubio who secured the endorsement of South Carolina’s Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, both rising stars in the Republican party, is hoping to gain from the exit of his former mentor turned rival Jeb Bush.
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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush announced on Saturday night that he is ending his campaign after a loss in the SC primary.
After Trump’s victory speech, Rubio spoke to his supporters, saying the Republican presidential primary has become a three-person race between himself, Trump and Cruz. “It’s certainly bigger than any one candidate”.
With a little over a quarter of the ballots in, Donald Trump has won the South Carolina GOP primary with 33% of the vote.
Jeb Bush wanted SC voters to do for his campaign what they did for his brother’s 16 years ago.
Following Saturday’s events, Democrats will head to SC for that state’s Democratic primary. Among those who prefer the next president to come from outside the political establishment, 63 percent voted for Trump, whereas those who prefer political experience split their vote between Marco Rubio (38 percent) and Ted Cruz (29 percent).
“Politics: It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s vicious”. And among voters 17 to 29, Cruz led with 28 percent and Trump was second with 26 percent. After the votes were counted Saturday, Trump had 34 percent.
The New York billionaire said he is leading “an incredible movement with incredible people”, as the crowd chanted “U-S-A!” The thinking is that all those Bush supporters will go to a Rubio or Kasich, for example, but is that true? Kasich says he does not expect to win the SC primary but does intend to continue with his campaign.
“There is nothing easy about running for president I can tell you”.
It’s over. SC was supposed to be the state where the former Florida governor’s campaign turned around from its stumbling start.
A visibly emotional Mr Bush said. While few South Carolina Republicans see this as the nation’s most important issue, half (51 percent) of this group backed the man who promised to build an enormous wall across the Mexican border. In New Hampshire, they said a conservative… could not compete.
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“We expect to do very, very well”, said Donald Trump at a rally in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday night. There are too many candidates in the field and as a result the anti-Trump vote is diluted.
